Posted on 01/30/2026 2:37:23 AM PST by C19fan
The BBC must stop box-ticking casting that 'shoe-horns' ethnic minority actors into period dramas, a review has urged.
In a damning independent report into the corporation's content, the BBC was also told it needs to improve coverage of the working class and women over 60 if it is to keep engaging audiences.
The broadcaster has been conducting 'preachy' diversity casting in a string of its dramas, resulting in ethnic minorities ending up in inappropriate settings, the review found.
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My fearless prediction: The BBC will pay some lip service to this report, and make a few minor adjustments.
But then they will go back to their old, woke methods. After all, that’s the way “progressives” operate. Those smug and arrogant folks just won’t be able to help themselves.
I even saw one version of the Iliad in which they cast Achilles as Black....y'know because there were so many Black Greeks 3300 years ago....Its impossible to take anything like that seriously. It would be like placing a 6'4' Blonde Haired Blue Eyed Swede in a period piece about 16th century Japan.
No. Just No.
I remember a movie from a few years back with Margot Robbie playing Queen Elizabeth I. Her ladies in waiting were asian and black. I’m not the most historically literate but I’m pretty sure QE1’s court was not comprised of Chinese and sub-saharan courtiers. It ruined the whole movie, there was no way you could feel you were watching an accurate depiction of historical events with such silliness on display. The movie flopped, largely for that reason I’d argue. I’m sure the producers high fived themselves over their diversity stance but to most normal people it’s just ridiculous and makes us lose interest quickly.
I guess the BBC thought that's why it was called the dark ages.
I suppose that, with good writing, "the working class and women over 60" can be as entertaining as any other topic.
So ... stop steering entertainment toward black and other ethnic groups, but start steering entertainment toward working class and older women.
Controlling people need to control.
Said another way it would appear that the BBC is the British version of Disney, don’t know though as many of us would rather watch grass grow.
Then again this is the same Broadway which cast the founding fathers in Hamilton with Negroes.
Where is the rich African culture we are always told about? Are there no authentic African tales
worth telling?
Ironically, one of the most endearing African tales, is the African "trickster" fable of Br'er Rabbit.
Yet that tale has been totally suppressed and buried by Disney.
A fun spoof would be a remake of “Roots” with the races switched: white slaves and black owners.
You want a Zulu Dawn remake?
How about a bio about MLK using a white actor to play MLK?
Mary Queen of Scots a particularly vile and egregious offender.
:: working class and older women ::
Middle class working women in the sunset of the boomer era?
Sounds AWFL
Tubi has a bunch of older BBC mini dramas available . Nary a negro in any of them.
“box-ticking casting that ‘shoe-horns”
WTH does that mean?
I guess they crossed the line with the 300 pound, bald black woman who portrayed George Washington.
Agreed.
So the BBC is their NETFLIX.
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